F. C. Burkitt

Gebundenes Buch

The Old Syriac Gospels - Introduction and Study Notes

An in-depth analysis and investigation of the ancient Syriac Version of the Gospels

Beschreibung

An in-depth investigation of the ancient Syriac Gospels. Very valuable for anyone interested in the Aramaic New Testament, Textual Criticism and transmission, and the Eastern Church. DURING the greater part of the first nine centuries of our Era the language commonly used in the Valley of the Euphrates and the neighbouring provinces was the dialect of Aramaic which we call Syriac. The literary headquarters of the Syriac-speaking Church was the city of Edessa (in Syriac Urhaii), which also had been the centre from which Christianity spread in all that region. The beginnings of Christianity at Edessa are lost in legend, but it is certain that the new religion was well established there before the city was absorbed into the Roman Empire during the reign of Caracalla (AD 216). The political independence of the little state accounts for the early translation of the Scriptures into the vernacular of the Euphrates Valley. About the year 420 AD the Gospel was extant in Syriac in three forms: The Peshitta; the Diatessaron of Titan; and the Old Syriac Gospels, called Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe.' The main object of the following pages is to trace the history of the Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe, and to determine as far as possible its relations to the Diatessaron and to the Peshitta. Originally published as: EVANGELION DA-MEPHARRESHE The Curetonian Version of the four Gospels, with the readings of the Sinai Palimpsest and the early Syriac Patristic evidence, edited, collected and arranged by F. Crawford Burkitt Volume II: Introduction and Notes

Autor

From 1903 to 1905, Burkitt was a lecturer in palaeography at the University of Cambridge. He was Norrisian Professor of Divinity from 1905 to 1934,[4] and then Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity from 1934 until his death in 1935. In 1926, he was additionally elected a professorial fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.Burkitt was a noted figure at Cambridge in 1912-1935 for his chairmanship of the Cambridge New Testament Seminar. He was also president of the Cambridge Philological Society from 1904 to 1905. Burkitt was one of the founding member of the Cambridge Theological Society that was dedicated to research, and president from 1907-09.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Independently Published
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781923341111
• ISBN-10: 1923341111
• Artikelnr.: 71876543